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TIL there is a company specialising in making hidden doorways \ rooms for your home. One requires a chess board played in a certain combo to unlock.

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wLRa7 TIL that at the age of 10, a boy named Alexander Bell asked his father if could have a middle name. As a result, on his 11th birthday, he became Alexander Graham Bell of telephone fame.
gp5A TIL During the first successful Commando raid at Lofoten, Norway in WWII, the officer used the local telegraph office to send to “A.Hitler in Berlin,” the following message: “You said in your last speech, German troops would meet the British wherever they landed. Where are your troops?”
vP14x TIL about Thomas Midgley, considered the Most Harmful Inventor in History who invented leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), Both of these inventions caused a great magnitude of damage to both human and planetary health.
oL5E TIL that during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic games, NBC dropped a tribute to the victims of the 7/7 attacks, instead cutting to an interview with Ryan Seacrest
E1Vyx TIL: During the earliest period of Earth's existence, the Hadean Period, 4.6-4.0 billion years ago, the surface temperature was over 200°C but there were still liquid-water oceans because the atmospheric pressure was 27 times as strong as it is now, significantly raising the boiling point of water.